PHOENIX (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed the only remaining legal claim in Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her loss in last year’s race for Arizona governor, affirming the election of Democrat Katie Hobbs. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson said Lake failed to prove her claim that Maricopa County did not … Read more
Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Senator John Neely Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, offended Mexicans across the world in a hearing on the FBI and DEA’s budget this month, calling for American military members and law enforcement agents to invade their country in order to “stop the cartels” while adding that Mexico would be “eating cat food and … Read more
Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) received an embarrassing reminder from a fellow contributor on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” show on Monday. Chaffetz, who became a pundit for the conservative network after quitting Congress in 2017, joined in with the panel’s criticism of a Politico article about the possible effect that Casey DeSantis, the wife of Florida … Read more
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s push to become a bigger player in the clean energy market is in the spotlight this week at a conference convened by its Republican governor, even as the state continues to embrace new fossil fuel production, including the controversial Willow oil project on the petroleum-rich North Slope. Gov. Mike Dunleavy … Read more
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images US stocks traded mixed on Monday ahead of debt ceiling talks with President Biden and lawmakers. The US has less than a month to raise its debt ceiling before the government could potentially default. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reiterated her June 1 deadline for policymakers to raise the borrowing … Read more
DILI, East Timor (AP) — East Timor’s opposition party won Sunday’s parliamentary election, meaning independence fighter Xanana Gusmao is likely to return as prime minister in Asia’s youngest democracy. The final vote count released by the National Elections Commission on Tuesday showed the National Congress of the Reconstruction of East Timor, known as CNRT, won … Read more